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Anne Tyler Quotes

I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, others seem to write themselves - but certainly the mechanics of writing, finding the time and the psychic space, are easier now that my children are grown.
Anne Tyler

Biography

Author Profession: Novelist
Nationality: American
Born: October 25, 1941

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My stories are never quite good enough.
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I spend about a year between novels.
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At most I'll spend three or four hours daily, sometimes less.
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I didn't really choose to write; I more or less fell into it.
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I expect that any day now, I will have said all I have to say; I'll have used up all my characters, and then I'll be free to get on with my real life.
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For me, writing something down was the only road out.
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I save the best of myself for novels, and I believe it shows.
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Ahead, Balk, Book, Certainly, Children, Every, Finding, Give, Grown, Mechanics, Never, Now, Psychic, Seem, Some, Space, Step, Tell, Themselves, Time, Trouble, Way, Which, Will, Write, Writing